Conscience Quote by Erik Erikson

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

— William Butler Yeats

It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty

— Shashi Deshpande

“We humans scorn what is not concrete. We are more easily swayed by a crying baby than by thousands of people dying elsewhere that…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

— Joseph Conrad

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

“When a long-desired baby is born, what joy! More happiness than we find in sex, more than we take in success, revenge, or wealth.…

— Donald Hall

Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“What started the ball rolling was a psychological conviction: the idea that something as horrible as these infant deaths couldn't just be random: someone…

— Sean Carroll

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

— John Bradshaw

“The great mistake of contemporary life is that we have made such a virtue of intellectual growth while almost totally ignoring the necessity of…

— Joshua Loth Liebman